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5. Handheld Devices in Field for Employees (3 first-place votes) <br />The Board expressed interest in seeing more field-based applications <br />deployed across the County. The technology is available for some <br />County applications currently but the limited availability of cellular and <br />broadband coverage fundamentally neutralizes the deployment of such <br />technologies. <br />6. Public comment and feedback through technology (3 first-place <br />votes) <br />The Board is interested using additional mechanisms to engage the <br />public. Much of the conversation undertaken in the Strategic <br />Communications section focused on this area so the discussion was <br />limited and referred to the previous work. <br />There was significant debate about having all Commissioners use County <br />email addresses for public business to avoid legal and logistical troubles <br />in the future. <br />7. IT governance (3 first-place votes) <br />Sh~nnon Tufts led a discussion emphasizing the importance of <br />department heads understand the competing needs of IT in the <br />organization and noted that IT Governance is a recommended strategy. <br />The strategy will be detailed in the forthcoming Strategic IT Plan. <br />8. Website improvements (2 first-place votes) <br />The Board and many department heads noted a desire for improved <br />County website. The common themes noted by the Board included more <br />interactivity, greater usability, more current design and feel, and less <br />cumbersome navigation. Shannon Tufts noted that the County has <br />among the highest number of online services of any county in the state. <br />9. Paperless agendas (2 first-place votes) <br />The Commissioners discussed the advantages and learning curve in <br />moving to a fully paperless agenda system. <br />10. Single, unified database for County information (2 first-place votes) <br />Tufts acknowledged the concept of a single, unified database sounds <br />appealing but informed the Commissioners that such a database was not <br />possible to design due to the multitude of systems used in the County and <br />required by the State and Federal government. <br />Following a brief review of key departmental requests, staff noted that, even <br />though the' Board did not have a chance to consider departmental IT requests <br />today, the Commissioners' requests, priorities, and staff requests would be laid <br />out in the forthcoming UNC Center for Public Technology strategic IT plan for <br />Orange County. <br />The meeting was adjourned at 3:45pm. <br />